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With a fine (if unnoticed) stroke of irony, the bill was signed into law on Bastille Day, July 4.

Neither the Bastille nor the Beatles could inspire us to overhaul life itself.

The bloody effervescence of the Bastille gave way to Robespierre and then Napoleon; Stalin crushed Trotsky.

Witness a brown cardboard sign held high on Sunday night at the Bastille.

Anyone hoping to learn what Bastille Day is all about would do well to start here.

Father Griffet, a Jesuit, has communicated to the public the journal of the Bastille, which certifies the dates.

As for his age, he himself told the apothecary of the Bastille, a little before his death, that he believed he was about sixty.

For him the world, set spinning on a mad career when the Bastille fell, was moving too slowly again.

When he left the Bastille, he plotted with his willing mistress his revenge upon her father.

In 1698, M. de Saint Mars was made governor of the Bastille.